To you, Lord, I called;
    to the Lord I cried for mercy:
“What is gained if I am silenced,
    if I go down to the pit?(A)
Will the dust praise you?
    Will it proclaim your faithfulness?(B)
10 Hear,(C) Lord, and be merciful to me;(D)
    Lord, be my help.(E)

11 You turned my wailing(F) into dancing;(G)
    you removed my sackcloth(H) and clothed me with joy,(I)
12 that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent.
    Lord my God, I will praise(J) you forever.(K)

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I cried to thee, O Lord; and unto the Lord I made supplication.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.

11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

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